Wall bounding driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screen, Chirk, Wrexham

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9348 / 52°56'5"N

Longitude: -3.0904 / 3°5'25"W

OS Eastings: 326810

OS Northings: 338040

OS Grid: SJ268380

Mapcode National: GBR 71.M5V2

Mapcode Global: WH78C.HHMH

Plus Code: 9C4RWWM5+WV

Entry Name: Wall bounding driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screen

Listing Date: 29 July 1998

Last Amended: 29 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20266

Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces

ID on this website: 300020266

Location: The driveway from Deepark Lodge drive climbs up to the stables. The wall defines the road on the SW side.

County: Wrexham

Town: Wrexham

Community: Chirk (Y Waun)

Community: Chirk

Locality: Chirk Castle

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

The wall was probably built in the mid C19 contemporary with E W Pugin's screen wall, and outlining the circulation to the SW corner of the castle originally laid out by William Emes in the 1760s.

Exterior

The wall is approximately 800m long and 1.5m high, built of uncoursed rubble stonework with a triangular ashlar coping. At the top it adjoins the end of the screen wall to the stable yard, and, at the bottom of the steep driveway, the wall terminates in a square pier with three offsetting ashlar copings forming a pyramid.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a significant element in the ensemble of buildings at Chirk Castle, and an essential part of the remodelling of the stable group in the Gothic idiom.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II* Stable Ranges
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II Wall on the NE side of the driveway to the Stables
The wall bounds the NE side of the driveway, and encloses the service access from the park to the N.
II Screen Wall and Towers defining the S Stable Yard on the S side
The structure runs parallel to the S wing of the stables, on the lip of the escarpment
II Dovecote
The dovecote stands to the S of the S range of the Home Farm buildings, on the edge of the National Trust park.
I Chirk Castle
The castle stands on a bluff overlooking and controlling the Ceiliog Valley. It is reached by Station Avenue running directly W from Chirk township.
II Sundial in the E Garden
The sundial is set in a pathway between the privy garden and the main top cross walk of the Eastern gardens of the Castle.
II Bronze Statue on a plinth in the E garden
The figure stands at the S end of the top cross walk in the eastern gardens.
II Statue in the E Garden
The two statues flank the opening in the hedge between the upper cross lawn, and the lower fruit tree lawn in the E gardens of the Castle.

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Wall bounding driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screen

A Grade II Listed Building in Chirk, Wrexham